An excellent and expository post. Your analysis is correct in that it's unfolding as I write this. Indeed it's been unfolding for decades but is now supercharged. The West is weak and divided. The left has grown exponentially in the West and has taken over the country I was born in and live. I fear that Islam will prevail in the West - that's the plan as written and with time and money will eventually prevail.
This commentary is spot on. Unfortunately only the converted ( like me) will hear it and heed the warnings given. Maybe, just maybe, a few in the center and even on the left might have a wake up call before it’s too late. I certainly hope so
Mr. Roso, PLEASE find a way to participate in our government to provide a counterweight to Mamdani and others like him. Mamdani is a menace, on so many levels. He's antisemitic. Plain as day. And on Good Friday he could not bring himself to allow the name of Jesus to pass his lips. But his overarching mission is to destroy our culture, our institutions, our history. He hates America for all the reasons many Americans love our country.
I have a nitpick with your comment if I may and I think it’s a crucial one. Mamdani isn’t an antisemitic jewhater. He is an antizionist jewhater. Let me try to explain why the difference matters:
Jewhate is the casting of the collective Jew as evil through libels embedded in the moral framework of the time. Jewhate has three historical phases.
1) antijudaism
moral framework: religious
libel: jews killed god. jews murder children for their passover rituals.
2) antisemitism
moral framework: science
libel: jews pollute the aryan race because they are genetically impure.
3) antizionism
moral framework: anticolonialism, antiracism, human rights
libel: the collective jew (israel) is a racist colonizer committing genocide.
mamdani is a product of the third era. when antizionists are accused of antisemitism, they can get out of the accusation by claiming that they are against racism. note that they always start their speeches by condemning antisemitism.
so, calling them antisemites when they are antizionists doesn’t actually achieve anything. it’s a misfire that doesn’t expose them for what they are.
antizionism should be called out as a distinct antijewish hate movement. and antizionists should be called as a distinct type of jewhater different from antisemites. their libels - colonialism which denies jewish peoplehood and history, apartheid which omits the 2 million arab citizens of israel, and genocide which is a moral inversion to wound jews - should be called out as distinct and new racist tropes. the more people expose this, the more isolated will the Mamdani’s of the world will become.
final note: the tactics and libels of antizionists are rooted in the soviet union and the great antizionist propoganda campaigns of the KGB in the 60s and 70s. dr. naya lekht, andrew pessin and adam louis klein have done amazing work on this topic.
Excellent. How do we generate anything other than a woke shitstorm? It seems like history is not teaching a lesson. Jews elected a jihadist mayor of a city with more Jews than anywhere other than Israel.
Yusuf, this is an excellent and deeply troubling analysis. What struck me most is your comparison to Turkey, because it reminds us that these shifts rarely happen overnight. Ideological movements rarely arrive announcing their final intentions — they enter institutions slowly, wrapped in the language that is fashionable at the moment. Today that language happens to be social justice and anti-colonial rhetoric.
What I find especially troubling is that roughly 30% of the Jewish vote in New York reportedly went to Mamdani. If even a significant portion of the Jewish community does not recognize the potential threat you’re describing, then how can we realistically expect the broader public to recognize it? That, to me, may be the most worrying part of all.
Yusuf, the longer essay strengthens your argument and adds important context. One thing that stands out to me is that the challenge is not only Islamism by itself, but the temporary alliance it has formed with Western Marxist or revolutionary movements. It is very much a marriage of convenience. Both share a deep hostility toward Western democratic civilization, even though their ultimate visions of society are fundamentally incompatible.
History suggests that alliances like this rarely last. My suspicion is that if such a movement ever truly gained power, the Islamists would eventually consume the Marxists, just as revolutionary coalitions throughout history have often devoured their own partners once power was secured.
What troubles me most, however, is not just the ideology but the scale of the institutional influence behind it. When you combine activist-driven education, cultural institutions, and the enormous funding streams flowing into universities from places like Qatar, the challenge becomes extraordinarily difficult to confront. It is not simply a political disagreement; it is an ecosystem shaping how the next generation understands the world.
And that leads to the real question: even if we recognize the problem, how do we realistically reverse it? The remedies sound clear in theory, but translating them into action is the far harder task.
That is why I mentioned earlier that perhaps the most worrying sign is how many people — including some within the Jewish community — still do not recognize the scale of the challenge. If those closest to the issue cannot see it, persuading the broader public becomes an even steeper uphill battle.
"Can human beings govern themselves without a master?" Like Shakespeare wrote in Hamlet "To be or not to be, that is the question" which means to me that in the West we need to decide, and are doing it badly, whether we want to be slaves or not. Islam is a destructor of civilization and needs to be understood as such. With Islam there is NO "Live and let live" which is anathema with them.
The young folks of America who have been indoctrinated in the belief the Islam offers them an alternative to the racist America they've grown to dispise, is the first battle we must fight. The college demonstrations have been stopped. The " thirdworldists are being sued. There are bills being passed to outlaw organizations like the Muslim Brotherhood. There are steps being taken to fight the Islamic disease, but I worry it's not enough. Thank you for being a leader in our fight against this cult who seeks world domination.
Brilliant article that superbly shapes up the Islamo-trouble we're in. I hope the increase in hate crimes on the Jewish populations in NYC doesn't become a Holocaust right under their noses. They seem to have forgiven 911...
the danger isn’t a holocaust. the danger is America’s culture turning into the resentment soaked, anti-individualist, anti-responsibility and ungrateful anti-western culture I left behind.
Two real questions buried here (the Al-Khoei visit, the Kassem appointment) and neither one actually gets investigated. Instead they’re used as on-ramps to a civilizational grand theory where every data point confirms the thesis and nothing could possibly disprove it. Kassem defended an al-Qaeda operative. He’s a lawyer. John Adams defended the redcoats at the Boston Massacre. The author’s experience watching Erdoğa gut Turkish secularism is genuine, but “I’ve seen this before” isn’t an argument. America in 2026 isn’t Istanbul in 1994, and treating one politician’s mosque visit as a “declaration” tells you more about the framework than about Mamdani.
We must resist this evil Islamic conquest with change in our first amendment rights and and aggressive attack on all Jihadist. Send them to the place their religion is already destroying prosperity for violent murderous ideology.
An excellent and expository post. Your analysis is correct in that it's unfolding as I write this. Indeed it's been unfolding for decades but is now supercharged. The West is weak and divided. The left has grown exponentially in the West and has taken over the country I was born in and live. I fear that Islam will prevail in the West - that's the plan as written and with time and money will eventually prevail.
Stephen, here is a longer form version of the same essay that goes deeper into the malaise in the West and what do about it.
https://firstworldistdhimmirefusenik.substack.com/p/the-thirdworldist-islamist-tram-reaches?r=46sts&utm_medium=ios
Thanks very much!
Excellent encapsulation. Thank you. How to wake up the younger people/the useful idiots!?
in a longer form version of the essay, I go deeper into what to do about the Islamist Thirdworldist malaise: https://firstworldistdhimmirefusenik.substack.com/p/the-thirdworldist-islamist-tram-reaches?r=46sts&utm_medium=ios
This commentary is spot on. Unfortunately only the converted ( like me) will hear it and heed the warnings given. Maybe, just maybe, a few in the center and even on the left might have a wake up call before it’s too late. I certainly hope so
Very good. Excellent and thank you. I shared it to my FB page. Bless you
Mr. Roso, PLEASE find a way to participate in our government to provide a counterweight to Mamdani and others like him. Mamdani is a menace, on so many levels. He's antisemitic. Plain as day. And on Good Friday he could not bring himself to allow the name of Jesus to pass his lips. But his overarching mission is to destroy our culture, our institutions, our history. He hates America for all the reasons many Americans love our country.
I appreciate the kind words.
I have a nitpick with your comment if I may and I think it’s a crucial one. Mamdani isn’t an antisemitic jewhater. He is an antizionist jewhater. Let me try to explain why the difference matters:
Jewhate is the casting of the collective Jew as evil through libels embedded in the moral framework of the time. Jewhate has three historical phases.
1) antijudaism
moral framework: religious
libel: jews killed god. jews murder children for their passover rituals.
2) antisemitism
moral framework: science
libel: jews pollute the aryan race because they are genetically impure.
3) antizionism
moral framework: anticolonialism, antiracism, human rights
libel: the collective jew (israel) is a racist colonizer committing genocide.
mamdani is a product of the third era. when antizionists are accused of antisemitism, they can get out of the accusation by claiming that they are against racism. note that they always start their speeches by condemning antisemitism.
so, calling them antisemites when they are antizionists doesn’t actually achieve anything. it’s a misfire that doesn’t expose them for what they are.
antizionism should be called out as a distinct antijewish hate movement. and antizionists should be called as a distinct type of jewhater different from antisemites. their libels - colonialism which denies jewish peoplehood and history, apartheid which omits the 2 million arab citizens of israel, and genocide which is a moral inversion to wound jews - should be called out as distinct and new racist tropes. the more people expose this, the more isolated will the Mamdani’s of the world will become.
final note: the tactics and libels of antizionists are rooted in the soviet union and the great antizionist propoganda campaigns of the KGB in the 60s and 70s. dr. naya lekht, andrew pessin and adam louis klein have done amazing work on this topic.
Excellent. How do we generate anything other than a woke shitstorm? It seems like history is not teaching a lesson. Jews elected a jihadist mayor of a city with more Jews than anywhere other than Israel.
in a longer form version of the essay, I lay out what to do about it in detail. the malaise in our society isn’t confined to the jewish community. more here: https://firstworldistdhimmirefusenik.substack.com/p/the-thirdworldist-islamist-tram-reaches?r=46sts&utm_medium=ios
Yusuf, this is an excellent and deeply troubling analysis. What struck me most is your comparison to Turkey, because it reminds us that these shifts rarely happen overnight. Ideological movements rarely arrive announcing their final intentions — they enter institutions slowly, wrapped in the language that is fashionable at the moment. Today that language happens to be social justice and anti-colonial rhetoric.
What I find especially troubling is that roughly 30% of the Jewish vote in New York reportedly went to Mamdani. If even a significant portion of the Jewish community does not recognize the potential threat you’re describing, then how can we realistically expect the broader public to recognize it? That, to me, may be the most worrying part of all.
thank you for the kind words. I have a longer form version of the same essay here that goes into what to do about it: https://firstworldistdhimmirefusenik.substack.com/p/the-thirdworldist-islamist-tram-reaches?utm_medium=ios
Yusuf, the longer essay strengthens your argument and adds important context. One thing that stands out to me is that the challenge is not only Islamism by itself, but the temporary alliance it has formed with Western Marxist or revolutionary movements. It is very much a marriage of convenience. Both share a deep hostility toward Western democratic civilization, even though their ultimate visions of society are fundamentally incompatible.
History suggests that alliances like this rarely last. My suspicion is that if such a movement ever truly gained power, the Islamists would eventually consume the Marxists, just as revolutionary coalitions throughout history have often devoured their own partners once power was secured.
What troubles me most, however, is not just the ideology but the scale of the institutional influence behind it. When you combine activist-driven education, cultural institutions, and the enormous funding streams flowing into universities from places like Qatar, the challenge becomes extraordinarily difficult to confront. It is not simply a political disagreement; it is an ecosystem shaping how the next generation understands the world.
And that leads to the real question: even if we recognize the problem, how do we realistically reverse it? The remedies sound clear in theory, but translating them into action is the far harder task.
That is why I mentioned earlier that perhaps the most worrying sign is how many people — including some within the Jewish community — still do not recognize the scale of the challenge. If those closest to the issue cannot see it, persuading the broader public becomes an even steeper uphill battle.
Finally, got a chance to read this post today.
It is eaily one the (5) best posts on The Future of Jewish.
Yusuf, please post again. You are terrific!!!
Thank you John. There is a longer form version of the essay here that goes a bit deeper into the malaise of thirdworldism and what to do about it.
https://firstworldistdhimmirefusenik.substack.com/p/the-thirdworldist-islamist-tram-reaches?r=46sts&utm_medium=ios
Thanks, I just printed it out.
"Can human beings govern themselves without a master?" Like Shakespeare wrote in Hamlet "To be or not to be, that is the question" which means to me that in the West we need to decide, and are doing it badly, whether we want to be slaves or not. Islam is a destructor of civilization and needs to be understood as such. With Islam there is NO "Live and let live" which is anathema with them.
He is connected to Hamas so indirectly to Iran
The young folks of America who have been indoctrinated in the belief the Islam offers them an alternative to the racist America they've grown to dispise, is the first battle we must fight. The college demonstrations have been stopped. The " thirdworldists are being sued. There are bills being passed to outlaw organizations like the Muslim Brotherhood. There are steps being taken to fight the Islamic disease, but I worry it's not enough. Thank you for being a leader in our fight against this cult who seeks world domination.
Brilliant article that superbly shapes up the Islamo-trouble we're in. I hope the increase in hate crimes on the Jewish populations in NYC doesn't become a Holocaust right under their noses. They seem to have forgiven 911...
the danger isn’t a holocaust. the danger is America’s culture turning into the resentment soaked, anti-individualist, anti-responsibility and ungrateful anti-western culture I left behind.
Wouldn’t shock me
They have never hidden their intentions yet the West refuses to see what is happening. If they do not do so soon, it will be the end of democracy
Two real questions buried here (the Al-Khoei visit, the Kassem appointment) and neither one actually gets investigated. Instead they’re used as on-ramps to a civilizational grand theory where every data point confirms the thesis and nothing could possibly disprove it. Kassem defended an al-Qaeda operative. He’s a lawyer. John Adams defended the redcoats at the Boston Massacre. The author’s experience watching Erdoğa gut Turkish secularism is genuine, but “I’ve seen this before” isn’t an argument. America in 2026 isn’t Istanbul in 1994, and treating one politician’s mosque visit as a “declaration” tells you more about the framework than about Mamdani.
Yawn.
We must resist this evil Islamic conquest with change in our first amendment rights and and aggressive attack on all Jihadist. Send them to the place their religion is already destroying prosperity for violent murderous ideology.